fifth grade narrative rubric
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How your child's personal narrative will be graded.TRANSCRIPT
Fifth Grade Personal Narrative Rubric
Exemplary Proficient Satisfactory Needs Improvement
Focus Clearly orients the reader by establishing an experience or conflict and introduces narrator,setting and characters
Orients the reader by establishing a general experience or conflict a narrator and characters
Orients the reader by establishing a general experience or conflict a narrator and characters through description is lacking detail.
Does not establish a clear experience or conflict, narrator, and or characters
Organization Effectively organizes the plot by naturally sequencing events with a beginning, middle and end using 6th grade transition words.
Adequately organizes by sequencing events with a beginning, middle and end using 6th grade transitions.
Organizes the plot using sequence of events, though there may not be clear 6th grade transitions and beginning, middle and endings.
Does not provide transition and a straightforward organization or events
Narrative Elements
Skillfully uses elements of plot, dialogue and description to fully develop characters and events
Uses dialogue and elements of plot,and description to develop characters and events
Attempts to use dialogue, elements of plot,and description to develop characters and events
Uses little or no dialogue, elements of plot and description to develop character and events
Word Choice
Consistently uses concrete language, effective word choice and sensory detail to precisely convey the events
Often uses concrete language, effective word choice and sensory detail to precisely convey the events
Uses some concrete language, effective word choice and sensory detail to precisely convey the events
Does not attempt to use concrete language to enhance narrative
Conclusion Provides an appropriate and well written conclusion that logically reflects on the events
Provides a conclusion that logically ends the narrative but lacks reflection upon the events
Provides a conclusion that is loosely connected to the events
Does not provide a conclusion
Conventions Command of conventions is strongly demonstrated
Command of conventions is sufficiently demonstrated
Commands of conventions is uneven
There is very little command of conventions